On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:50:13PM +0000, Hereward Cooper wrote: | > /sbin/ifconfig | > will display the IP address of all interfaces | > | > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read | > that file | > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't | > need the | > file ... | | I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP | address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver | somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and | login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of.
Ahh, you were going to upload that to a webserver. That makes much more sense. It is similar, though less convenient, to what the Dynamic DNS Tools do -- they "upload" your IP to a server which then updates the DNS records. -D
